A plaine and perfect method, for the easie vnderstanding of the whole Bible containing seauen obseruations, dialoguewise, betweene the parishioner, and the pastor.
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A plaine and perfect method, for the easie vnderstanding of the whole Bible containing seauen obseruations, dialoguewise, betweene the parishioner, and the pastor.
Author
Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.
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London :: Printed by T. S[nodham] for the widow [A.] Helme, and are to be sould at her shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet,
1617.
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Bible -- Study -- Early works to 1800.
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The seauenth Particular, con∣cerning Samuell, in the fourth Obseruation.
Par.
Declare vnto me I pray you, in briefe answeres, concerning the Booke of Samuel, and the Booke of the Kings.
Past.
According to the Latines there are foure Bookes, to wit, two entituled the Bookes of Sa∣muel, and two entituled the Bookes of Kings: all which foure according to the Hebrew, are only two, reckoning both the bookes of Samuel for the one, and both the Bookes of the Kings for the other. The Writers thereof (seuerally a piece or a portion) were Samuel, Nathan, Gad, A∣hiah the Shilonite, Iddo the Seer, as may appeare by these words;* 1.1The acts of Dauid are they not
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written in the Booke of Samuel the Seer, in the Booke of Nathan the Prophet, and in the Booke of Gad the Seer?
Par
What was this Samuel?
Past.
Hée was the sonne of Elka∣nah an Ephrahite, whom Hannah his Mother obtayned at the Lords hands, by prayer, when she was in reproach amongst all Israell by reason of her barren∣nesse. She dedicated him to the seruice of GOD in the Tem∣ple, who proued a most faith∣full and a most constant Pro∣phet of the Lord vnder King Saul.
Par.
What doth the first Booke of Samuel containe?
Past.
It principally containes the story of King Saul.
Par.
What doth the second booke of Samuel containe?
Past.
It containeth principally the story of King Dauid.